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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS TYSON, OF MOUNI) CITY, MISSOURI.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,611 dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed June 4, 1888. Serial-No. 276,015. (No model.)

hicle, and wherein the meansemployed for operating the gate will be simple, durable, and readily manipulated.

The invention consists of the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of'my improved I gate. Fig. 2 is a front elevation illustrating the gate as open, and also illustrating the application of a device for opening the gate from the center of the walk, which device is omitted in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of I the gate-post and gate with the latter closed,

illustrating the attachment of the opening devices to the gate; and Fig. 4 is a detail view representing an elevation of one of the standards.

The gate 10 is hinged to the gate-post 11 in such manner that the upper hinge will be forward of the vertical line of the lower hinge; The gate 10 is preferably constructed of a series of vertical and horizontal slats pivoted together to produce an essentially-rectangular shape, as shown in Fig. 3. To one of the horizontal slats orstrips a latch-bar, 12, is pivoted at the lower end, which latch-bar extends above the gate, and has at or about the center attached thereto a latch, 13, which latch 13 is adapted for engagementwith any approved form of catch 14, attached-to the inner side of the receiving gate-post 15, as best shown in Fig. 3.

Upon the gate-post 11 at the upper end two rollers, 16 and 17, are held to revolve, and at therefrom,vertical standards 18 and 19 are secured in the ground, the said standards being so spaced that the distance from the gate-post to the standards will essentially. equalthe width of the gate. Upon the standards 18 and 19, at their upper ends, horizontal beams 20 and 21 are secured, which beams are to project at an inclination upward and in a direction outward from the gate-post, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The beams 20 and 21 are recessed at their outer ends, or that end overhanging the road, to receive pulleys 22, pulleys 23 being mounted upon the beams near their intersection with the standards, and pulleys 24 are also suspended from the under side of the beams in front of the aforesaid standards, which construction is more clearly set forth in Fig. 2.

Preferably to the inner face of each standard 18 and 19 one end of a lever, 25, is pivoted, which lever is normally held in anelevated position through the medium of a rope or chain, 26, passing through a suitable aperture in beam 20 or 21, and having secured to its extremity a weight, 27.

A rope or chain, 28, is attached to each of the levers 25 near its pivotal end, which ropes or chains are carried over the pulleys 23, around the upper pulley, 17, upon the gatepost, and attached to the upper end of the gate-latch bar 12. In running the ropes or chains as aforesaid the ropes upon opposite sides are carried around the pulley 17 in opposite directions, whereby they are also attached to opposite sides of the gate-latch bar.

Upon the inner face of each of the standards 18 spaced and vertically-aligned staples 29 are secured, which staples are intended for the reception of pins 30, preferably of metal, which pins are prevented from escaping through the staples by means of eyes formed in their upper ends, to which ropes orchains 31 are secured, and the said ropes or chains passing over the pulleys 22 are projected downward, terminating in rings 32.

As an auxiliary means of opening the gate independent of the levers 25, I provide ropes 'or chains 33, which are suspended from the cross-beams 20 and 21 and hang down parallel with the aforesaid latch-ropes 31. The ropes or chains 33 pass over the pulleys 22, also unver 25 manipulates the latch-bar 12, thereby der the pulleys 24. and around pulleys 34, journaled in recesses in the inner side of the standards 18 and 19, from whence the ropes 33 upon the two sides of the gate-post are carried in opposite directions around the lower pulley, 16, mounted upon the gate-post 11, to an attachment at opposite sides of the gate-latch bar 12 in similar manner to the lever ropes or chains 28 aforesaid.

In operation, the gate being closed, as shown in Fig. 1, a person approaching from the right by partially drawing down the lereleasing the gate from its receiving-post. By a continued downward movement of the lever 25 to a position illustrated to the right in Fig. 2 the gate is thrown to the left back of the standard 1.),whereupon, the rope 28 being released and the lever 25 passing upward to its normal position, the latch pivoted to the latchbar is brought to its normal position and in engagement with the rear of the latcl1pin 30, as shown to the left in Fig. 2. To close the gate, the rope 31 is pulled downward, which raises the latch-pin 30 upward out of operative contact with the latch-bar, thereby releasing the latch of the gate and permitting the same to automatically close again, this automatic action of the gate being due to the manner in which it is hinged to the gatepost, as above stated. It the operator or the person desiring to pass through the gate is, near the center of the road, or at a distance from the standards, by means of the auxiliary rope 33 the gate may be opened in similar manner as when the lever 25 is manipulated by simply drawing down upon said rope.

I make no claim in the present application to a gate having a forward inclination and provided with a flexible brace; nor do I broadly claim the vertically-sliding pin operated by ropes passing over pulleys in the tops of the standards and down within reach of the operator, as the said constructions are shown, described, and claimed in applications filed of even date with this application and numbered, respectively, 276,014 and 276,016.

Having thus described'my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a gate-post provided with pulleys upon the upper end and a gate having its upper hinge forward of the vertical line of the lower hinge and adapted to open in two directions, of a standard at I each side of the gate-post, a lever pivoted to said standards, a rope or chain attached to the levers, passing over the pulleys and secured to opposite sides of the latch-bar, a latch pivotally secured to said bar, a latchpin vertically supported upon the standards in line of the said latch, and a rope attached to said latch -pin and supported from the standards, by means of which the latch-pin may be raised out of operative contact with the latch, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with a gate-post provided with pulleys upon the upper end, a gate having its upper hinge forward of the vertical line of the lower hinge and adapted to open in two directions, and a latch-bar pivoted to said gate and extending above the same, of a standard at each side of the gatepost, a lever pivoted to each standard, a rope or chain attached to each lever, passing over the pulleys on the gate-post and secured to opposite sides of the latch-bar, a latch pivotally sccured to said bar, a latch-pin vertically supported upon the standards in line of the horizontal movement of the said latch, and a rope attached to said latch-pin and supported from the standards, by means of which the latch-pin may be raised out of operative contact with the latch, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a gate-post provided with pulleys upon the upper end,a gate having its upper hinge forward of the vertical line of the lower hinge and adapted to open in two directions, and a latch-bar pivoted to said gate, extending above the upper end, of a standard at each side of the gatepost, a counterbalanced lever pivoted to each standard, a rope or chain attached to each lever, passing in opposite directions over the pulleys on the gate-post, and secured to opposite sides of the gate-latch bar, a latch pivotally secured to said bar, a latch-pin vertically supported upon the inner side of each standard in line of the horizontal movement of said latch, and a rope attached to each latch-pin and supported from the standards, by means of which the latch-pin may be raised out of operative contact with the latch, as and for the purposes specified.

THOMAS TYSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD Hucenvs, JOHN P. LEWIS. 

